NMDC bags Ruwais LNG dredging gig

According to a statement by NMDC, the contact is worth more than $200 million.

The contract includes extensive dredging operations, involving the removal of about 15 million cubic meters of material across a 5-kilometer channel with a 245-meter width, it said.

NMDC will also install vital navigational aids, ensuring safe maritime access to the new LNG facility.

Located in Al Ruwais Industrial City in Abu Dhabi, Adnoc’s LNG project will feature two natural gas liquefaction trains with a combined capacity of 9.6 million metric tons per annum.

NMDC Energy, a unit of NMDC Group, in collaboration with France’s Technip Energies, was recently awarded a contract by Adnoc for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the LNG export plant.

The joint venture led by France’s Technip Energies also includes Japan’s JGC and the contract is worth $5.5 billion.

State-owned Adnoc announced in June the final investment decision on the project and the EPC award.

Prior to that, Adnoc issued in March this year a limited notice to proceed for early engineering, procurement, and construction activities to the joint venture.

Besides this EPC deal, Adnoc Gas, the gas and LNG unit of Adnoc, also awarded US energy services firm Baker Hughes a contract for the LNG export terminal.

Baker Hughes will provide two electric liquefaction systems (e-LNG) for the Ruwais LNG project.

The LNG project will more than double Adnoc’s existing UAE LNG production capacity to around 15 mtpa, as the company builds its international LNG portfolio.

Adnoc currently owns a 70 percent stake in Adnoc LNG, that currently produces about 6 mtpa of LNG from its facilities on Das Island.